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"RAYMOND UNWIN (1863-), English architect, was born at Rotherham, Yorks, in 1863, and educated at Magdalen College school, Oxford. He received his earlier training in an engineer's office and later as an architect. He was for many years associated in practice with Barry Parker in Buxton. Interesting himself more particularly in housing as a social question he acquired a reputation as an authority on the laying-out and designing of " Garden-Cities," being responsible for the first English example at Letchworth. The planning of many other garden suburbs, villages and estates was carried out from his designs. Amongst them are the layout and buildings at New Earswick, Yorks, for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust, and the Hampstead Garden Suburb in the N.W. district of London. In 1914 he was appointed the first chief town-planning inspector to the Local Government Board, and, immediately on the outbreak of the World War, director of the housing branch under the Ministry of Munitions. Here he was responsible for the layout of many buildings for the new township of Gretna, and for Mancot Village, Queensferry, and much other work. He also during the war served on departmental committees dealing with small holding buildings, building by-laws, and building materials research. After the war he was appointed chief architect dealing with site planning, and, subsequently, deputy director of housing, under the Ministry of Health. He published Town-planning in Practice (translated into French and German), and (with Barry Parker) The Art of Building a House.